User talk:Scuffleball

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See below for some replies to your comments in Votes for deletion/Scuffleball. Please don't take the listing of this article for deletion personally. It happens to lots of us until we get the hang of what is wanted.

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Now, specifically about the scuffleball article. You wrote: '' Just a Comment. The sport is real, it's not fictional. It has been played, and it has a set of cohesive rules. It does exist. I thought Wikipedia was an information source. I had no idea that just because someone has not heard of something that it deserves to be deleted. Delete it if it doesn't pass this litmus test, but 'not notable' is quite arbitrary. scuffleball 22:24, Aug 11, 2004''

Wikipedia is an information source, but it's not a source of all information. We don't for example have entries for every person on the telephone book, although that is information too. And the suggestion that it should be deleted is not just because someone hasn't heard of it. Some over-zealous editors do seem to list articles fo no better reason than this, but the guidelines and policies hopefully make it clear that this is not good either.

Please feel free to drop me a question on my talk page if there's anything you think I can help with, and particularly if, after you've done some reading of some of the policy documents listed above, things still aren't clear. Andrewa 13:55, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)